The 10th Regiment Song
of 1767
(sung to the traditional air,
Corporal Casey)

On the third day in June of the year '67
The Tenth in three transports sailed out of Cork Haven,
All jovial and hearty like soldiers so valiant,
And Commodore Holmes was top and top-gallant.

Sing fal de ral la la, fal de ral lal de ral,
La trallal la, lal trallal lal de ra!
(Repeated after each verse)

The Tenth, jolly fellows, were Bassett and Vatass,
Fitzgerald, and Thompson, and Lecky, and Bathhurst,
Montgomery their chaplain, Thwaits, Edwards and Hely,
Crampton, Parsons, Shute, Shawe, Green and Kelly.

But of all jolly fellows, the first to be reckoned
Was Marmaduke Savage, of the Fifty-Second;
For he of the bottle was such a brisk shover,
That before they left land they were near half seas over.

Fitgerald was hearty, and Kelly was rosy,
And Thompson was rocky, and Vatass was boozy;
And all were as merry as ducks in a shower,
And thus they sailed on nine knots by the hour.

The sea ran so high, that not an old stager
Could come upon deck for three days, but the Major;
And he looked so round, as he sat with his wraps on,
That the sailors mistook him oft times for the capstan.

The Major commanded on board Caernarvon,
A ship twice as big as the town of Dungarvon,
Which carried their women, and baggage so weighty,
Of officers seventeen, and men three times eighty.

But such was the courage of fresh water sailors,
Next day they all look'd like a parcel of tailors;
And though the King's birth-day, the glass was neglected,
And Crampton and Parsons for once were dejected.

Now still the same sadness made each day as one day,
And only for prayer-day, the'd never known Sunday;
But Mongtomery, their chaplain, just like a good vicar,
Took care of their meat, and their souls, and their liquor.

But such was their loyalty, such was their boozing,
That in nine weeks, of wine they drank eighty-one dozen,
Of rum, shrub, and brandy, just fifty-six gallons,
And ninety-eight dozen of porter, to balance.

Now, quite out of wine, and almost provisions,
They came on Port Levis in doleful condition;
But the sight of Quebec soon with courage renewed them,
And the spirit of Wolfe, as they landed, reviewed them.